Future 'Energy Czar' On Addressing Climate Change
npr.org 12/16/2008 — National Public Radio: President-elect Barack Obama recently chose Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu to be his energy secretary. Director of the Dept. of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu is an advocate of renewable energy ...

Obama Chooses Energy Secretary, EPA Chief, and “Climate Czar”
redgreenandblue.org 12/13/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama will soon announce current head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy. Filling the slot for EPA Administrator will be Lisa Jackson, Carol Browner will serve as Obama’s ...

Obama, Aides Consider Appointing Energy 'Czar'
online.wsj.com 12/8/2008 — STEPHEN POWER and NEIL KING JR. WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and his aides are close to naming a slate of appointees to run the departments of Interior and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency amid debate on whether to ...

Chu: Scientist, cyclist, energy czar
marcgunther.com 3/20/2009 — The Obama administration has unveiled a $2.4-billion grant program to promote plug-in hybrid cars, which will travel 40 miles on a single electricity charge and 100 miles on a gallon of gas. You’ll rarely have to fill the tank if you don’t drive ...

How Anti-Regulation Is Obama’s New Regulatory Czar?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 1/12/2009 — Our guest blogger is Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. Cass Sunstein How would progressives respond if President Bush nominated as “regulatory czar” a person who: – Once called for changing the Clean Air Act to ...

Van Jones just confirmed as Obama’s Green Jobs Czar
greendig.net 3/9/2009 — UPDATE 2/9: Someone just called me the "Perez Hilton" of the green world. I may be deserving of the slight. This story is NOT yet confirmed until the White House press release is issued, and digging deeper into where my sources heard it from, it is ...

Title, but Unclear Power, for a New Climate Czar
nytimes.com 12/12/2008 — WASHINGTON — Much remains unknown, and perhaps undecided, about Carol M. Browner ’s new position as White House coordinator of energy and climate policy. How much real authority will Ms. Browner wield? Will her office have the same bureaucratic clout ...

Green 'Czar' Pushes Jobs, Community-Building
npr.org 5/13/2009 — Morning Edition , May 12, 2009 Van Jones has been on a crusade to, in his words, "green the ghetto" by killing two birds with one stone: reducing poverty and saving the environment. Recently appointed as President Obama's special adviser for green ...